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Patents

INNERCOOL therapies has aggressively developed a broad intellectual property portfolio in the emerging field of hypothermic therapy. The company has nearly one hundred patent applications on file domestically and around the world. Below are some of the latest patents issued to INNERCOOL by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

PATENT NO TITLE
6,676,690 Inflatable heat transfer apparatus
6,676,689 Inflatable catheter for selective organ heating and cooling and method of using the same
6,660,028 Method for determining the effective thermal mass of a body or organ using a cooling catheter
6,648,908 Inflatable catheter for selective organ heating and cooling and method of using the same
6,648,906 Method and apparatus for regulating patient temperature by irrigating the bladder with a fluid
6,602,276 Method and device for performing cooling- or cryo-therapies for, e.g., angioplasty with reduced restenosis or pulmonary vein cell necrosis to inhibit atrial fibrillation
6,599,312 Isolated selective organ cooling apparatus
6,595,967 Collapsible guidewire lumen
6,585,752 Fever regulation method and apparatus
6,582,455 Method and device for applications of selective organ cooling
6,576,002 Isolated selective organ cooling method and apparatus
6,576,001 Lumen design for catheter
6,558,412 Selective organ hypothermia method and apparatus
6,551,349 Selective organ cooling apparatus
6,540,771 Inflatable catheter for selective organ heating and cooling and method of using the same
6,533,804 Inflatable catheter for selective organ heating and cooling and method of using the same
6,491,716 Method and device for applications of selective organ cooling
6,491,039 Medical procedure
6,482,226 Selective organ hypothermia method and apparatus
6,478,812 Method and device for applications of selective organ cooling
6,478,811 Method for low temperature thrombolysis and low temperature thrombolytic agent with selective organ temperature control
6,475,231 Method and device for applications of selective organ cooling
6,471,717 Selective organ cooling apparatus and method
6,468,296 Method for low temperature thrombolysis and low temperature thrombolytic agent with selective organ temperature control
6,464,716 Selective organ cooling apparatus and method
6,450,987 Collapsible guidewire lumen
6,383,210 Method for determining the effective thermal mass of a body or organ using cooling catheter
6,379,378 Lumen design for catheter
6,364,899 Heat pipe nerve cooler
6,325,818 Inflatable cooling apparatus for selective organ hypothermia
6,312,452 Selective organ cooling catheter with guidewire apparatus and temperature-monitoring device
6,261,312 Inflatable catheter for selective organ heating and cooling and method of using the same
6,254,626 Articulation device for selective organ cooling apparatus
6,251,130 Device for applications of selective organ cooling
6,251,129 Method for low temperature thrombolysis and low temperature thrombolytic agent with selective organ temperature control
6,245,095 Method and apparatus for location and temperature specific drug action such as thrombolysis
6,238,428 Selective organ cooling apparatus and method employing turbulence-inducing element with curved terminations
6,235,048 Selective organ hypothermia method and apparatus
6,231,595 Circulating fluid hypothermia method and apparatus
6,224,624 Selective organ cooling apparatus and method
6,149,677 Circulating fluid hypothermia method
6,096,068 Selective organ cooling catheter and method of using the same
6,051,019 Selective organ hypothermia method and apparatus
6,042,559 Insulated catheter for selective organ perfusion
5,957,963 Selective organ hypothermia method and apparatus